New Products

Your shoulder will thank you for traveling with TRENDnet's TEW-654TR
Wireless N Travel Router Kit, a device that its maker calls the world's
smallest 300Mbps wireless 802.11n router. This little guy measures a
mere 6.4 x 8.2 x 1.9cm and comes with a carrying case, a thin 1-meter
Ethernet cable, an Energy Star Certified external power adapter and
an alternate USB cable to power the router from a computer. The router
also features Access Point and Access Point Client modes and offers the
latest in wireless encryption to protect valuable data. An advanced
Multiple Input Multiple Output antenna technology delivers high-speed
wireless connectivity and broad coverage that minimizes dead spots.

Forget your old device charger in your hotel room with élan after picking
up Bluelounge's new Refresh charging station, which can simultaneously
re-juice up to four devices of nearly any kind. Refresh has six universal
connectors in one compact location—namely two iPod/iPhone connectors,
a Micro USB, a Mini USB and two USB sockets. Users can extend their
device options by plugging in their own connectors, and short USB connector
cables are available from Bluelounge.

In an effort to expand the accessibility of HPC, Colfax International
announced availability of two new low-cost HPC cluster computing bundles,
which include InfiniBand switches and adapters provided by Mellanox
Technologies and Platform Computing's Platform Cluster Manager. The new
bundles improve application performance and productivity in enterprise and
data centers by adding 20Gb/s (Bundle 1) or 40Gb/s (Bundle 2) InfiniBand
connectivity and simplify cluster operation through a fully integrated
software stack. They further enable more companies to take advantage of
the performance, low-latency and efficiency benefits of InfiniBand and
the ease of use provided by Platform Cluster Manager, the latter of which
“allows a user to build a cluster in hours versus weeks”, says Colfax.
A 10Gb/s bundle also is available.

Go green and save green with
iX Systems' new iX-Green Neutron, a server line that its maker says
“is optimized for high-performance applications and provides the
lowest power consumption on the market”. The iX-Green Neutron models
iX-GN1204, iX-GN1208 and iX-GN 2216 utilize power-saving DDR3 memory,
2.5" SAS and/or SATA drives and are equipped with high-efficiency
(86%–93%) power supplies, all designed to reduce data-center costs
without sacrificing performance. The series also leverages Intel's Xeon
Processor 5500 series to boost performance, speed and energy efficiency
over previous generation processors (12% at peak performance and 47%
when idle), in part due to the way it interacts with power-saving DDR3
memory. The 5520 chipset introduces Intel QuickPath technology, which
allows high-speed point-to-point links to navigate shared memory swiftly,
distributed amongst the processors, greatly increasing efficiency and
thereby cutting back on memory power utilization as well. The systems
run FreeBSD.

Get Oracle running out of the box with IPBrick for Oracle, an appliance
loaded and configured with Oracle Enterprise Linux, Oracle Database and
Application Server. IPBrick asserts that its product offers greater
simplicity than Microsoft Windows servers with automatic installation
taking around 20 minutes, functional configuration via a Web interface
that does not require Linux knowledge and simple recovery taking around
30 minutes. The company says firms can save money by not needing
Linux experts to install and manage the system. The server also
integrates with Microsoft Active Directory.

If you are planning on putting cloud computing to work in your
organization, you'll want to consider picking up the new O'Reilly
book Cloud Security & Privacy: An Enterprise Perspective on Risks
and Compliance. The title is penned by Tim Mather, Subra Kumaraswamy
and Shahed Latif. Written for readers as diverse as business managers,
IT personnel, service providers and investors, the book walks through
the steps needed to ensure that Web applications are secure and data is
safe, as well as addresses regulatory issues, such as audit and compliance.